I would like to share with you an ancient poem by Master Lingche, "The green mountains alone lead us far away."
This poem expresses the poet's reluctance to leave Master Lingche. (This feeling can be obtained by referring to the connotation of the sentence "The green mountains alone return to the distance" and the taste of the entire poem)
Send Master Lingche
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Cangcang Bamboo Forest Temple, the bells ring late.
The lotus hat brings the setting sun, and the green mountains alone return to the distance. (Setting Sun, Part 1: Sunset)
Translation
Looking at the Zhulin Temple in the Cangcang Mountain Forest, the sound of the bell ringing can be heard in the distance.
He put on his bamboo hat and clad himself in the afterglow of the setting sun, and walked toward the green mountains alone, gradually getting further and further away.
Notes
Master Lingche: a famous monk in the Tang Dynasty. His surname was Yang and his courtesy name was Yuancheng. He was from Kuaiji (now Shaoxing, Zhejiang) and later became a monk at Yunmen Temple. Master, a respectful title for monks.
Cang Cang: dark green. Zhulin Temple: in the south of present-day Jiangsu Province.
杳 (yǎo)杳: far-reaching appearance.
He (hè) Li: Carrying a bamboo hat.
He: carry on his back.
Creative background
This poem was written by the author about what he saw and felt on the way to see Lingche back to Zhulin Temple in the evening. Master Lingche was a famous poetic monk in the mid-Tang Dynasty. His common surname was Tang and his courtesy name was Cheng. He was a native of Kuaiji (now Shaoxing, Zhejiang). He became a monk at Yunmen Temple in Yunmen Mountain, Kuaiji. The Zhulin Temple in the poem was in Runzhou (now Jiangsu). Zhenjiang) is the temple where Lingche stayed during his trip.